This made me think. For an European, are there any good alternatives to Visa/Mastercard/Paypal? Seems like we're dependent on US payment systems
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There is almost no public transport outside cities. I don't remember the last time I had the opportunity to use one.
As for meat, I'm not vegan, but I could be if seiten was more common.
It's not just meat. Milk, cheese and related products (pizza?), clothing, oils, gas production, ectera ectera. Even fertilizer for crops. I'd rather have sustainable earth population than give up things that make me happy
This somehow completely disregards the most critical side-effect of overpolulation esepcially when you calculate in dying oceans and trees.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide
The sustainable capacity was calculated to be around 2 billion. This is not affected by food output.
I guess it's more about the fact that for me VPN itself feels like an unnecessary step that potentially comes with risks (not saying that currently there are any issues with protonVPN, but I've used to the fact that all good things enshittify). I've never had problems pirating, the only thing government (with very low effort and barely any enforcment) blocks are online gambling sites, which pretty much everyone supports anyway. My previous ISP used to host FTP server for power users that had pirated movies and games, with speeds so fast my HDD was the bottleneck. That was around 12-14 years ago tho, I moved. EU data laws and privacy laws makes me feel somewhat safe. No known mass espionage or anything like that.
I only consume foods that contain high amount of PFAS to grow a protection layer around my teeth